Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GID'DI-NESS
GID'DI-NESS, n.
- The state of being giddy or vertiginous; vertigo; a sensation of reeling or whirling, when the body loses the power of preserving its balance or a steady attitude, or when objects at rest appear to reel, tremble or whirl; a swimming of the head.
- Inconstancy; unsteadiness; mutability. Bacon.
- Frolick; wantonness; levity. Donne. South.
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